May 30, 2024  
2023-2024 University Catalog 
    
2023-2024 University Catalog

Department of Physics and Astronomy (Graduate)


Website URL:

http://www.physics.purdue.edu/academic-programs/graduate/index.html

Department/School Head:

School Head: Gabor Csathy

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

Purdue’s Department of Physics and Astronomy is a recognized world leader in many areas of theoretical and experimental research. Forefront research in physics, cutting across several disciplines are being carried out by high quality, motivated graduate students and world-renowned, dedicated faculty in the department. Our present and future students will support the active research that is being carried out in the following areas: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Applied Physics, Astrophysics, Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Biological Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, High Energy Nuclear Physics, High Energy Particle Physics, Physics Education, Planetary Physics and Geophysics.

  • M.S.
  • Ph.D.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

  • Accelerator Mass Spectrometry
  • Applied Physics
  • Astrophysics
  • Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
  • Biological Physics
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • High Energy Nuclear Physics
  • High Energy Particle Physics
  • Physics Education
  • Planetary Physics and Geophysics
  • Quantum Information Science

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor


Lynn Bryan
Marc Caffee
Erica Carlson
Yong P. Chen
Gabor Csathy
Stephen M. Durbin
Daniel S. Elliott
John P. Finley
Ephraim Fischbach
Dimitrios Giannios
Chris Greene
Brigit Kaufmann
Sergei Khlebnikov
David S. Koltick
Martin Kruczenski
Rafae Lang
Yuli Lyanda-Geller
Maxim Lyutikov
Oana Malis
Michael J. Manfra
Norbert Neumeister
David D. Nolte
Yulia Pushkar
Laura J. Pyrak-Nolte
N. Sanjay Rebello
Ken Ritchie
Francis Robicheaux
Leonid Rokhinson
Sergei Savikhin
Fuqiang Wang
Wei Xie
Qi Zhou

Associate Professor

Chen-Lung Hung
Matthew Jones
Andreas Jung
Kyoung-Soo Lee
Tongcang Li
Nathaniel A. Lifton
John Peterson
Jorge H. Rodriguez
 

Assistant Professor

Hadiseh Alaeian
Arnab Banerjee
Rudro R. Biswas
Xingshan Cui
Paul Duffell
Jonathan Hood
Srividya Iyer-Biswas
Nima Lashkari
Qi-Yu (Grace) Liang
Miaoyuan Liu
Laimei Nie
Shalini Low-Nam
Ruichao Ma
Danny Milisavljevic
Nirajan Shivaram
Brijesh K. Srivastava
Jukka Vayrynen

Programs

    DoctoralMaster’s

    Courses

      AstronomyPhysics